INFINITY ♾️ INFINITY Chapter 2
Chapter 2 3 MILLION BC The flake came away clean. Nuru paused, his tongue dry against his teeth, and turned the piece of dark green chert in his calloused palm. A perfect scar. The kind of flake a lesser knapper would have wasted a day trying to produce. He set it aside with the others—six sharp-edged crescents, each one a promise of meat, of hide, of survival. His father had taught him the angles on the bank of a river that no longer ran. Now Nuru taught himself. That was what the world demanded: a man who could learn alone. Beyond the overhang of basalt that served as their temporary shelter, the savannah shimmered in the heat-shimmer of false water. Acacia trees stood like old, angry women, their thorns waiting. And moving across the eastern horizon, slow as continents, the deinotheres walked. Zuri sat with her knees drawn to her chest, her chin resting on them. She was not watching the herd, exactly. She was watching the space the herd moved through. The great shovel-tusked b...